Chocolate Cake | Beautifully Decorated

About the Recipe

Chocolate Cake is something we all love. Learn how to make Bakery style soft and spongy chocolate cake at home, while using easily available ingredients and without using a microwave oven.
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Ingredients

1 cup all purpose Flour (120 gm)
2 Tbsp Cocoa Powder
¾ cup + 2 tbsp milk
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp + 2 pinches baking soda
¼ cup oil
3/4 cup powdered sugar
1 tbsp vinegar
1/2 tsp vanilla essense

Directions

Take 3/4 cup of Milk in a bowl and add a tablespoon of vinegar or lemon jiuce. Mix it, and let it rest for 7-8 mins.
Line your pan/cake tin with Oddy Ecobake Baking and Cooking Paper and set it aside. Meanwhile Preheat the pan on low flame for 5-7 minutes.
After 10 mins, milk will be cudeled up. Now ad 3/4 cup of powdered sugar and 1/4 cup of unflavoured oil and some drops of vanilla essence. Mix them properly for about 5 mins
Take a bowl and strain 1 cup of Maida in it, along with 2 tablespoon of Cocoa Powder, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda, 2-3 pinch of salt.
Transfer dry ingredients into the bowl of mixture, and mix them thoroughly, to make smooth and lump free batter
Treansfer the batter into the mold and give it a tap, and put it in pre heated pan. Bake it on low flame for 35-40 mins
After 35-40 mins check the cake using a toothpick, if it came out clean you cake is perfectly baked. Let it cool down.
For Frosting:
Take a bowl which was freezed for about 30 mins in a freezer and add 1 cup of whipping cream in it and beat it using a beater.
Coat the cake using whipped cream completely, and smooth it using a spatual or some cards. Make a chocolate Ganache by mixing 1/2 cup of chocoalte and 5 tablespoon of hot cream. Transfer it into a piping bag, and add a layer of it on the cake top.
Make a swirl pattern on it using a spatula. Using same Ganache, make chocolate drips pattern on the sie of the cake.
Take 2 tablespoon of whipped cream in bowl and add 2-3 tablesppon of ganache. Mix them properly and transfer into a piping bag with close stars shape nozzle.
Make simple swirl heap design on the topp outer edges of cake. Freeze it for sometime. Meanwhile take some pooped corn, you can use packed corns from market.
Add 1/4 cup of sugar in a pan, melt it on medium flame, as it melted, add 1 teaspoon of salted butter, add 2-3 pinches of baking soda. Stirr it for sometime and add popcorns into it. Stirr and make sure that all popcorns are coated in caramel.
Take a piece of Oddy Uniwraps Food wrapping paper and transer popcorn on it, let it cool down. When cooled down, when popcorns are set, breakthem into seperate pieces.
Add these caramel popcorns in the centre space of cake, and further garnish the cake with some chocolates drops and a chocolate ball in the middle. And it is ready to serve.

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Classy Bhava Kitchen

An MBA Lecturer & Personality Development Trainer by profession & a full on food enthusiast. She believes that great food is foundation to genuine happiness.